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ReviewFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2019

Role of Exosomes in Central Nervous System Diseases.

Wanying Liu, Xiaodan Bai, Ao Zhang, Juanjuan Huang, Shixin Xu, Junping Zhang

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Review in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers.

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131citing papers in PubMed
9.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

131 citing papers in PubMed, 220 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Wanying LiuFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Xiaodan BaiFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Ao ZhangEpidemiology, College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Juanjuan HuangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Shixin XuFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
Junping ZhangFirst Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.
First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNNew York University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are many types of intercellular communication, and extracellular vesicles are one of the important forms of this. They are released by a variety of cell types, are heterogeneous, and can roughly be divided into microvesicles and exosomes according to their occurrence and function. Of course, exosomes do not just play a role in cell-to-cell communication. In the nervous system, exosomes can participate in intercellular communication, maintain the myelin sheath, and eliminate waste. Similarly, exosomes in the brain can play a role in central nervous system diseases, such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), prion disease, and traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), with both positive and negative effects (such as the transfer of misfolded proteins). Exosomes contain a variety of key bioactive substances and can therefore be considered as a snapshot of the intracellular environment. Studies have shown that exosomes from the central nervous system can be found in cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral body fluids, and that their contents will change with disease occurrence. Because exosomes can penetrate the blood brain barrier (BBB) and are highly stable in peripheral circulation, they can protect disease-related molecules well and therefore, using exosomes as a biomarker of central nervous system diseases is an attractive prospect as they can be used to monitor disease development and enable early diagnosis and treatment optimization. In this review, we discuss the current state of knowledge of exosomes, and introduce their pathophysiological roles in different diseases of the central nervous system as well as their roles and applications as a viable pathological biomarker.

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biomarkerscentral nervous system diseasesexosomesintercellular communicationstroke

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PMID31636538
PMCPMC6787718
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